Quotes with incapable

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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • John Milton It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Norman Mailer Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Harold Macmillan Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Al-Waleed bin Talal Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
    Al-Waleed bin Talal
    Saudi prince and businessman (1955 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Bhagavad Gita That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Alexis Carrel The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • David Foster Wallace To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
    Consider the Lobster (2005) 157
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • George Henry Lewes We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
    The phsyiology of common life (1859)
    George Henry Lewes
    English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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  • Ronald Reagan We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Camille Paglia When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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